Yuriko Furuhata - Department Chair

Yuriko Furuhata is a Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History (2015-2025) in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University. Her first book, Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Duke University Press, 2013), won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Her second book, Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control (Duke University Press, 2022) explores the geopolitical conditions underpinning environmental art, weather control, digital computing, and cybernetic architecture in Japan and the United States. 
Climatic Media received an honourable mention for the 2022 Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) CHOICE Award in the category of interdisciplinary monograph. She is currently completing a book, titled Visual Grammars of Deep Time: Archipelagic Archives of the Anthropocene (under contract, Duke University Press), which examines scientific atlases, photographs, and films of fossils, clouds, snow crystals, and corals in relation to the settler colonial histories of geosciences in Japan, the Pacific, and North America. Her articles have appeared in a wide range of journals, including Grey Room, Representations, Public Culture, Media+Environment, and Screen, and edited collections such as Screen Genealogies (2019), Media Theory in Japan (2017), Animating Film Theory (2014), among others.